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Straw Works

A works in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1889 and 1911.

The line reading Union Straw Works in the 1889 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1889 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1889Union Straw Worksthe scanned index
1911Straw Worksthe scanned index

How the name was read

Each atlas was set in type by a different hand and scanned decades later, so the same establishment comes back spelled differently. Every reading below was produced by the recogniser from the sheets; none was corrected or invented. They are published so a search for any of them finds this page.

Straw Works
Union Straw Works

Named in the 1884 county history

The history of Norfolk County was published 5 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Bainbridge Mowry succeeded Mr. Reed as master of the First Middle School in December, 1840. He was the son of Caleb and Clarinda (Taft) Mowry, born in Mendon, July 25, 1818, and received a name indicative of his father's admiration of a brave American commodore. His education was chiefly obtained in the Uxbridge and Holliston Academies. He married Emily Frances Carroll of Walpole, August 25, 1841. Having previously taught schools in Walpole, and having completed nearly three years of instruction in Dedham, he abandoned teaching and tried various kinds of business. Finally he engaged in the straw works, which business he continued twenty-nine years, and then relinquished it on account of deafness.

Read the chapter on Dedham Town.

Named in the same survey

11 establishments

The surveyors walked Norfolk County once and wrote down what they found. These are the other establishments from the same atlas, each with the line it was read from.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1889 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1889 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Pond, V. S., Mill and Lumber Yard in the 1889 atlasPond, V. S., & Co., Mill and Lumber Yardmill1889
The index line reading Haywood, H. T., Satinette Mill in the 1911 atlasHayward, H. T., Satinette Millmill1911
The index line reading High School in the 1911 atlasHigh Schoolschool1911
The index line reading Baptist Church, -_ in the 1911 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1911
The index line reading Police Station in the 1911 atlasPolice Stationice house1911
The index line reading Post Office in the 1911 atlasPost Officeice house1911
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1911 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1911
The index line reading Whitney, G. R., Shoddy Mill, at Unionville, 13 in the 1911 atlasWhitney, G. R., Shoddy Mill, at Unionville, 13mill1911
The index line reading Widen Lord Tannery in the 1911 atlasWiden Lord Tannerytannery1911

Other works in the atlases

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Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Norfolk County, with the years each one appears.

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, held by the Library of Congress. Sanborn atlases published before 1930 are in the public domain. Only names that at least three of four independent readings agreed on are published, and no spelling has been corrected: what appears here is what the recogniser returned from the ink.